The Alive Tree of Knowledge A new concept in Collective Interactive Knowledge Integration.
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The Alive Tree of Knowledge
A new concept in
Collective Interactive Knowledge Integration
The basic concept: (on which limitations and amendments have to be performed)
“unmoderated collective Christmas tree decoration”:
each member of the community sits in front of a branched tree representation of the field and
makes desired additions / changes, deletions.
I am here ;
My papers
Kind of material included in the tree:
Spontaneous contributions by community Members-macro-nodes: representing large fields connected to the subject
-Nodes: representing subjects with a significant internal coherence
-Sub-nodes: representing research groups or specific issues
-Basic unit: representing individuals profiles,
-Articles
-Plans for actions
-Opinion papers
Skeleton materials initiated by the Tree-keepers:-Invited nodes (representations of new / emerging fields)
-Editorial nodes (major issues underrepresented in spontaneous contributions)
-Synopsis Nodes (items facilitating the exploration of branches by newcomers)
This ideal of total freedom of expression is limited by
technical, social and scientific limitations:
-Technical: avoid conflict of updating same file at the same time
- Social : preventing malicious deletions or deliberate junk deposition
-Scientific : - preserving the profile and scientific integrity
- Allowing objective tools to discern more from less relevant entries.
This forest-ranger activity will take much of
the tree-keeper resources
Maintenance
Eliminate/ update obsolete items / structures Design pedagogical guided tree-tours for beginners
Design personalized tree-queries facility (interactively fit to the enquirer profile)
Provide tree-search Filters
Provide current orientation: highlight new emergent leader ideas, leader documents
Provide contributors support (access, interactive tools)
Tree map demo• This presentation is to demonstrate 2 vital points• The first is the graphical creation of a connections
map, (dragging- adding deleting reorganizing)• The second is the stage paradigm , that is the
linked object (stage) is composed of three main parts– Its place on the network of connection (neighbors)
– An optional remote page (that is to be linked and discussed on this network)
– Open discussions relating to the stage
Not in this demo
• Authors/ Contributors – The author is an entity that may be shown on
the graph, connected to wherever the author contributed.
– Registration is required in order to contribute (and to put oneself on the map )
– A network of authors/contributors may be created either explicitly or by common interests as defined by the participation.
Entities in the graph• The Stage is the container of data. It is the node
that is linked to others.Stages are created on the graph.
• The discourse is the place where all users may have their say. Discourses are created inside a stageDiscourses are created inside a stageA discourse may be split into two, or may mature into A discourse may be split into two, or may mature into
a Stage a Stage (coming soon)(coming soon)
• The Discourse contains regular text that is auto-formatted into a web page (hyperlinks, headings,TEX (coming soon)(coming soon))
• All of the content is editable (clicking on any text gives that option )
Main view
• Map • Text
Two panes: graph and content
Stage Hidden neighbors
Selected Stage
Discourse
Expanding tree map view
Expanded tree map view
Zooming in (before)
Zooming in (after)
Clicking on either will navigate (both panes)
Navigating to the “Exystence” node
Intermediate (animation) frames missing …
Clusters automatically formed by elastic
connections and repelling forces
Reducing visible radius (locality)
Reducing visible radius (locality)
Creating a link
Creating a new link (dragging)
Creating a new link (dragging)
Creating a new link (dragging)
New link brings concepts together
Deleting link (right click)
Creating a node (Stage)
Dragging a new node into Exystence
Dragging a new node into Exystence
The sample node is created
And deleted … (right click)
Resizing the views
Equal view
Equal view
Related nodes are clickable
Tooltips, show node description
Clicking will shift both panes to the new Stage
Related nodes are clickable
Missing Frames (and animation)…
Map is in sync with text browsing
Expanding visible radius (in hops)
Expanding visible radius
Browsing
Missing animation
Navigation
Multiple Discourses visible
The remote coupled page Stage
Remote coupled page connected
Remote coupled page hidden
Remote page url
Initiating a Discourse
Adding comments to a page
Immediate formatted comment
Hiding the discourse body
Hiding the content
Summary
• The Stage has 3 main components.– Place on the map (and links to neighbors)– Optional remote coupled page– Discourses containing simply formatted,
hyperlinked, collectively user-generated freely editable content
Here are those links …
Links, Remote page , Discourse